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RE: names to say in late september
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kennedy)
Fri Jul 28 16:21:01 2000
From: "John Kennedy" <jkennedy@certicom.com>
To: "Heyman, Michael" <Michael_Heyman@NAI.com>, rodney@tillerman.to
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:11:41 -0700
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Having listened to ANSI X9F.1 and IEEE P1363 working groups argue for years
about naming/renaming nearly to the point of absurdity,
I thought I would point out what RSA's lawyers said on the record about the
name:
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/P1363/letters/SecurityDynamics.jpg
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/P1363/letters/SecurityDynamics2.jpg
-John Kennedy
(The usual disclaimers apply...)
To: cryptography@c2.net
Subject: RE: names to say in late september
> From: Rodney Thayer [mailto:rodney@tillerman.to]
>
> Many companies trade mark their company name. I've heard the
> term 'rsa' pre-dates the company, so I assume they didn't do
> that. I don't see it on the web site.
>
Trademarking the company name and trademarking the algorithm name is
different.
It seems RSA (the company) has trademarked RSA (the algorithm), although
recently.
>From <www.uspto.gov> (there may be more RSA algorithm trademarks, these are
just the first two I came across:
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Word Mark: RSA
<snip>
